At Thursday's hearing regarding whether the Shakespeare Theatre Company's injunction against the Lansburgh Theater, its landlord and supporting organization, should be tried in a Federal Cou…
David S. Kessler is a Fringe fanatic. For 50 weeks out of the year, he works as a small mammal biologist at the National Zoo. But for two sweltering weeks in July, Kessler devotes himself to…
On Aug. 4, the performance of "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will be followed by a discussion with producing dramaturg Ronee Penoi, Apple co-foun…
Megan Hilty doesn't think she's famous. Sure, she's the star of "Smash" on NBC, the dramatized " or, more accurately, soap opera-ized " story of the making of a Broadway musical based on Mar…
Suzanne Andrade is sitting cross-legged on a sofa at Studio Theatre, where "The Animals and Children Took to the Streets" is nearing the end of its Washington run. This is the second show cr…
Synetic's 2012-13 season boasts four world premieres. "My take is that four brand-new productions . . . will inspire people in different ways," said Paata Tsikurishvili, the th…
Aslan leaps. He leaps like no lion could ever leap. Aslan is impossible. He's a puppet, this Aslan, though puppet designer Eric Van Wyk would "consider it a compliment if someone said it doe…
Things are about to get a little spooky scary at Signature Theatre in Arlington: The theatre is commissioning two new musicals, both of which have a bit of a horror bent. The commissions, gr…
Olney Theatre Center's new artistic director is ready, in his words, "to raise some eyebrows." Martin Platt, who began his new role at Olney on May 28, thinks next season's roster of plays w…
Once an enchantress warned a young prince not to be deceived by appearances. "Beauty is found within," she told him, and surely you recall what happened next. You'd do well to heed that advi…
Hugo Medrano, the producing artistic director of GALA Hispanic Theatre, was set to direct the musical "Puerto Rico . . . ¡fua!" He'd been working on the show for six months…
Rachel Grossman is going to be an eighth-grader again. Perhaps this doesn't sound particularly appealing to you. Maybe it gives you Puberty PTSD flashbacks: teeth tangled in the prison of br…
Jay Frisby has been playing Tom O'Brien on the national tour of "South Pacific" since September. After Kerouacing it up all over the country for nine months along with a 50-member cast and c…
Marty Lodge has something really cool to say, except he's not allowed to say it. "I've been sworn to secrecy," he said. Okay, fine, he will say one thing: "I'm going to be on 'Mad Men' next …
Maybe somebody spiked the D.C. water system with pixie dust. Or maybe we're all aching for some happily-ever-after closure as an escape from the open-ended chaos that is current public disco…
"It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to present the thing, to be frank," said David Muse of Oren Jacoby's adaptation of "Invisible Man," which will kick off the Studio Theatre's upcoming s…
Theater of the First Amendment is closing its doors as George Mason University's professional theater company in residence. TFA will be funneling its resources and energy into a new initiati…
Wayne Brady didn't know he was going to be writing a rant. He was under the illusion that this was a standard-issue interview. "Not so!" I informed him, in so many words. "The Rant is a spec…
Paata Tsikurishvili began by asking himself a question: Who in today's world could possibly qualify as a shrew? Tsikurishvili is directing "The Taming of the Shrew," the latest installment …
The role of Harold Hill in Arena Stage's upcoming production of "The Music Man" will be played by Burke Moses.
Say you have a date for Valentine's Day. Hooray! The hard part is over, right? Wrong. As anyone who has ever braved the world of dating can attest, dates are to awkward moments as political …